Re: Corruption and crashes with SIL3112A SATA chipset

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Martin Alexander Hammer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing both data corruption and crashes when using an SATA
> controller with the SIL3112A chipset. The controller itself is a "Syba"
> PCI adapter with two SATA-150 connectors:
>  
> http://www.syba.com/us/en/product/43/02/03/index.html
> 
> Two 200GB Seagate disks are connected to the adapter, and I have tested
> it in two different machines, by trying to store 180GB of data on each
> drive. Here's a list of the combinations of kernels and drivers, that I
> have tried, and what the outcome was:


Does it help to add the Seagate disk model number to the blacklist in 
sata_sil.c?

/* TODO firmware versions should be added - eric */
struct sil_drivelist {
         const char * product;
         unsigned int quirk;
} sil_blacklist [] = {
         { "ST320012AS",         SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
         { "ST330013AS",         SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
         { "ST340017AS",         SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
         { "ST360015AS",         SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
         { "ST380023AS",         SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
         { "ST3120023AS",        SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
         { "ST340014ASL",        SIL_QUIRK_MOD15WRITE },
[...]